Research Guides: Religion & Culture: REL-3/4805: Indigenous Ceremonies and Healing

REL 3805 (4805): Indigenous Ceremonies and Healing

This page features resources for the course REL-3805 (4805) Indigenous Ceremonies and Healing. You can find more by searching the Library catalogue, or look up databases and journals by title.

Citing Elders and Knowledge Keepers

The University of Toronto Libraries' Indigenous Research Methodologies provides a guide for appropriately citing elders and knowledge keepers in MLA, APA, and Chicago format. The guide also recommends several books on Indigenous research methods, all of which can be found by searching the Library catalogue.

Books

Working with Elders and Indigenous Knowledge Systems

The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being

Indigenous Healing: Voices of Elders and Healers

Returning to Ceremony

A Fire Burns Within: Teachings from Ceremony and Culture

Anishinaabe Ways of Knowing and Being

Religion and Culture in Native America

Citing & Research Guides

Elements of Indigenous Style

Indigenous Information Literacy

Research Is Ceremony

Decolonizing Research

Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies

Indigenous Methodologies

Decolonizing Methodologies

Databases

Indigenous Studies Portal (iPortal)

The Indigenous Studies Portal (iPortal) is a database of full-text electronic resources such as articles, e-books, theses, government publications, videos, oral histories, and digitized archival documents and photographs. The iPortal content has a primary focus on Indigenous peoples of Canada with a secondary focus on North American materials and beyond. Anyone can use the freely available materials in the iPortal but some resources are licensed and may only be available from your own library.

Scholarly Journals

Wicazo Sa Review
[A]n interdisciplinary journal devoted to the mission of assisting Indigenous peoples of the Americas in taking possession of their own intellectual and creative pursuits.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies
As a general focus, the journal publishes anthropological, historical, sociological, political, legal, education and cultural issues affecting First Nations people. Although the majority of articles deal with Indigenous peoples in Canada, it also publishes articles dealing with Indigenous peoples world-wide.
Native American and Indigenous Studies
Official publication of The Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), "an interdisciplinary, international membership-based organization comprised of scholars working in the fields of Native American and Indigenous Studies broadly defined."
American Indian Culture and Research Journal
One of the premier journals in Native American studies, [AICRJ] publishes original scholarship, commentaries, and book reviews on a wide range of issues in the fields of history, anthropology, geography, sociology, political science, health, literature, law, education, and the arts.